Cloned from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321140
Description of problem:

Satellite 6.1

The patch removes the limit varchar(4096) which will be released in 6.2. Can we have also a patch for the version 6.1.

foreman=# \d ptables
Table "public.ptables"
Column | Type | Modifiers
------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------
id | integer | not null default nextval('ptables_id_seq'::regclass)
name | character varying(255) | not null
layout | character varying(4096) | not null <=== it has a MAX varchar() limit on the table
created_at | timestamp without time zone | not null
updated_at | timestamp without time zone | not null
os_family | character varying(255) |
Indexes:

Always, it is documented in the named foreman issues:
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/12119
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/3008

There is also a fix that has been committed for foreman 1.8:
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/2113/files